Model
Most groups pass at model level: composition, durability, reparability, footprint. The record every unit of that model shares.
ESPR 2024/1781 · The Digital Product Passport roadmap
The product passport: which group is next.
Steel, aluminium, furniture, mattresses, toys: the passport reaches the whole economy one delegated act at a time. The engine being built underneath is the same one.
Product groups on the roadmap
One framework will reach every product group in turn.
The passport is not a battery thing, or a textiles thing. It is a framework. ESPR bolts the same carrier, the same identifiers and the same registry onto product group after product group, one delegated act at a time. When your act lands, the data problem is the one every group before you already hit: the proof lives up your chain, the duty lands on you.
- BatteriesLive
- TextilesLive
- SteelAhead
- AluminiumAhead
- FurnitureAhead
- ToysAhead
Batteries and textiles are live. Steel, aluminium, furniture, toys, the rest ride the same rail. Only the fields change.
6priority product groups in the first ESPR Working Plan
8shared DPP standards, one carrier for any product
0of these passports can be met with a PDF. Every record is machine-read
One carrier. One set of identifiers. One registry. Whatever the product, the framework underneath is the same, and each delegated act adds its own set of fields to it.
The DPP framework of ESPR, Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, Articles 9 to 12, in plain wordsDigital product passport process
The seven steps to a product passport.
The law asks one company for a record it doesn't hold. This is how Bindu is building it, in seven moves, the same seven for any product group. Supplier collection, evidence and the audit trail run today on the EUDR filing engine. The passport engine is still being built, so every step below is marked planned.
01 / 07 · AskPlanned
Ask each tier for the field it holds.
Bindu runs supplier collection this way for EUDR today. Whatever the product, the passport pulls from the same chain: one request per supplier, each asked for a single field in the format it already keeps.
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Passport access rights
One QR code shows each reader a different view.
A buyer, a repairer, a customs officer. One record, a different door for each. It works the same whether it's a sofa, a tyre or a toy.
PublicUnique product identifier
PublicProduct category & model
PublicManufacturer identity
PublicCountry of assembly
PublicMaterial composition
PublicSubstances of concern
PublicDurability & reliability class
PublicReparability score
PublicRecycled content share
PublicRecyclability
PublicEnvironmental footprint
PublicCare & use instructions
PublicSafety warnings
PublicWarranty
PublicEU declaration of conformity
Legit. interestDisassembly & repair instructions
Legit. interestSpare-part sources
Legit. interestLocation of substances of concern
Legit. interestEnd-of-life & recycling guidance
Legit. interestDetailed material breakdown
AuthorityConformity certificates & test reports
AuthorityEconomic-operator contacts
AuthorityTechnical-documentation references
Static, model data is public. The rest opens to a legitimate interest or an authority. The doors are the same for every product group, only the fields change.
Granularity
Model, batch, or item?
How fine the passport goes is set by each delegated act, not by you. Most groups pass at model level. Some, like batteries, go all the way to the unit.
Batch
Where a value changes run to run, the act asks for it per batch: the plant, the date, a recycled-content share.
Item
Some acts, batteries first, push to the individual unit: a serial ID and a living record that follows that one product for life.
The fields and the grain are fixed by each delegated act under ESPR Articles 5 and 9. Bindu is being built to fill whichever the act names, from the records you already keep, so a change of grain is one setting rather than a rebuild.
DPP roadmap dates
The DPP roadmap dates are public.
Two dates are fixed in statute. The product-group dates are indicative: the Commission's own plan, and each act applies about 18 months after it lands. The direction does not change.
Two things fell due at once: the EU DPP Registry, live since 20 July 2026 under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1778 as the shared lookup that resolves every product's identifier, and the ban on destroying unsold textiles and footwear for large companies (Article 25).
Purpose
What the passport is for.
ESPR is a design law. The passport exists so a product can be repaired, resold and recycled instead of binned.
A repairer needs the spare-part number and the disassembly steps. A recycler needs the composition and where the substances of concern sit. A buyer wants to know it will last. Today that information dies at the till. The passport is where it survives, for every product group, not just batteries.
- reparability hidden
- no spare-part source
- composition unknown
- destroyed unsold
- binned at end of life
Digital product passport standards
The same standards apply to every product group.
Whatever the next delegated act names, the plumbing is the same. Bindu is being built onto Eclipse Tractus-X, the open dataspace stack behind Catena-X, so a new product group needs a new template rather than a new stack. One block is wired today: the connector. The rest below are the standards the passport is being built onto, not features you can use yet. Pick a building block.
Circular economy
Eco Pass
The Digital Product Passport blueprint. Its generic DPP aspect model carries any product group, and the reference viewer resolves the carrier to a public or restricted view.
- Generic DPP aspect model
- QR / RFID carrier
- Public + restricted views
From the blog
Read more from the blog.
Fundamentals · 4 min readWhat Is the Battery Passport? The First Mandatory DPPThe battery passport is the first mandatory EU Digital Product Passport. What it is, which batteries need one, when it starts (18 February 2027), and what it holds.Fundamentals · 4 min readThe EU Batteries Regulation, ExplainedThe EU Batteries Regulation (2023/1542) covers every battery on the EU market: carbon footprint, recycled content, due diligence, labelling and the battery passport. What it requires.Reference · 4 min readWhat Data a Battery Passport Must Hold (Annex XIII)A battery passport must carry the data in Annex XIII: identity, carbon footprint, recycled content, due diligence, performance and recycling, shown at defined access tiers.Fundamentals · 7 min readWhat Is a Digital Product Passport for Textiles?A digital product passport for textiles is a scannable record of a garment's fibres, origin, care and compliance, required under the EU's ESPR. What it holds and who owes it.Reference · 4 min readDigital Product Passport for Textiles: Timeline & DatesWhen does the textile digital product passport apply? The ESPR timeline, from the 19 July 2026 unsold-stock ban to the textile delegated act expected around 2027.Guide · 6 min readDigital Product Passport for Textiles: Data RequirementsWhat data a textile digital product passport must hold: product identity, fibre composition, care and repair, durability, recycled content and compliance, and who assembles it.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
After batteries and textiles, the passport spreads one delegated act at a time. The per-group years are when each act is adopted, not when compliance bites: iron and steel first (adopted 2026), then aluminium and tyres (2027), furniture (2028), and mattresses (2029), alongside horizontal measures on reparability and recycled content. Toys follow on their own statutory track in 2030, and cement on a separate conditional window. These dates are indicative and follow the Commission's own plan, and the passport for each group applies about 18 months after its act is adopted, not on the adoption date itself.
Source: European Commission: Ecodesign working plan 2025 to 2030
The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), which entered into force on 18 July 2024. It replaced the 2009 Ecodesign Directive and extended the passport from energy products to almost everything physical, with the requirements for each product group set by its own delegated act.
Source: EUR-Lex: EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation
Adopted on 16 April 2025, it names six priority product groups (textiles, furniture, mattresses, tyres, iron and steel, and aluminium) plus horizontal measures on repair and recycled content. It is the published queue for which group gets a passport, and roughly when.
Source: European Commission: Ecodesign working plan 2025 to 2030
The deadline was 19 July 2026, and it went live on 20 July 2026 under the implementing regulation for the Registry. The Registry is the shared lookup that resolves every product's unique identifier to where its passport is held, while the content stays with the operator or its passport service provider. The same date, the ban on destroying unsold textiles and footwear started to bite for large companies under the ESPR.
Source: EUR-Lex: EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation
Yes. From 1 August 2030 the Toy Safety Regulation applies: every toy needs a passport, and it replaces the paper declaration of conformity. Toys arrive on their own statutory track rather than through an ESPR delegated act.
Source: European Commission: Toy safety
Cement waits on its own conditional window, no earlier than the end of 2028, under the ESPR.
Source: EUR-Lex: EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation
A structured electronic record that travels with a product and carries its identity, materials, compliance and end-of-life data. It is reached by scanning a data carrier on the product, usually a QR code, and is built so shoppers, recyclers and authorities each see the parts they are entitled to. The EU is rolling it out one product group at a time.
Source: EUR-Lex: EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation
Each product gets a unique identifier carried on it in a QR, NFC or RFID tag. Scanning it resolves, through the EU's central Registry, to the passport data held by the operator or its service provider. Only the identifier sits in the Registry; the content stays with the company, not on an EU server.
Source: EUR-Lex: EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation
The economic operator that places a product from a covered group on the EU market, usually the manufacturer or the importer. Which groups are covered, and when, is set one delegated act at a time: batteries first, then textiles, and the rest of the Working Plan behind them. An operator may appoint a passport service provider to run it, but stays legally responsible.
Source: EUR-Lex: EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation
The ESPR sets the framework categories: a unique product identifier, compliance and conformity details, material composition and any substances of concern, plus durability, reparability, recycled-content and end-of-life data. The exact fields are fixed per product group by that group's delegated act, not by one universal list. Access is layered, so consumers, recyclers and market-surveillance authorities each see the parts they are entitled to.
Source: EUR-Lex: EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, Articles 9 to 11
The ESPR is the EU's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, in force since 18 July 2024. It replaced the 2009 Ecodesign Directive and lets the EU set sustainability and information rules, including the Digital Product Passport, for almost every physical product. It sets no product rules directly: each product group's requirements arrive through its own delegated act, sequenced by the Ecodesign working plan.
Source: EUR-Lex: EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation
No. The Digital Product Passport is an EU instrument under the ESPR, and the UK has not adopted an equivalent mandatory passport. Scope follows the market, not the maker, so a UK company placing a product from a covered group on the EU market still needs a compliant passport for it. UK digital-labelling work is being explored separately and requires nothing yet.
Source: EUR-Lex: EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation
Pricing
Book a 30-minute demoWhat a product passport costs.
Digital Product Passport · two payers, one record
€999a quarter for the brand. The label printer pays the rest.
Two payersthe brand pays quarterly, the printer per unit
- Brand: €999 a quarter for the product record and supply-chain collection.
- Label printer: €0.59 a unit at print, once passport minting ships. A 100,000 run is €59,000.
- Battery passport 18 Feb 2027, textiles follow.
Industry: DPP platform and QR pricing is quoted per project. Bindu publishes its price instead.
Keeping your workspace live is €20 a month. EU-hosted, GDPR compliant. Prices exclude VAT.
Operator responsibility
Whoever places it on the market keeps the passport.
ESPR names an independent passport service provider to run the DPP for the operator. That is the role Bindu is building for, across every group at once. The passport engine is not live yet, so what we can do today is tell you which fields your delegated act will ask for and which of them you already hold.
One set of standardsthe same carrier, identifiers and registry for any product
5 yearsthe standard retention term, ten years on request
4 languagesEnglish, German, Spanish and Dutch today
A templatea new act is only a new form